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Finding performance wins in our own traces with a coding agent

Our short summary of Sentry’s engineering write-up. The full story, with all the detail, is on their blog.

Read the full write-up on blog.sentry.io (opens in a new tab)

Problem

Sentry needed to locate and fix performance bottlenecks in its own backend traces.

Solution

They built a coding agent that used the Sentry MCP to analyze trace data, suggest code changes, and automatically remove hundreds of millions of unnecessary queries each week.

Hundreds of millions of queries removed weekly

Want the architecture, code and numbers? They’re in the original post.

Read the full write-up on blog.sentry.io (opens in a new tab)

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